Hahaha, so next time I will give djozz a try
With this kind of cups He would do this in 2 days only (or even faster )
When I’ll back to Holland next week, I’ll give a try to order something by PostNL, and deliver it there…I’m curious if it will take also so much time?!
I meant that sentence to read: “Seems to me like you ought to be able to do it in 4 days, if you would get yourself a good Bike Light. - The theory being that you can cover Twice as much ground if you can ride Day & Night!
It seems that the older I get the more I tend to leave the ends of words off, or even leave entire words out
Thanks for being so good natured about it
No way would I ever be a Bike Snob (it’s bad enough being a ‘Tint-Snob’)… I am about to embark on an epic 12.5 mile Beer Run, aboard my Pannier equipped, Vintage (1985?) NISHIKI ‘Prestige’… and old steel framed road bike.
Should be home in a few hours or so… - Wish me luck!
After I ordered a s30, I read about the shipping problems some have experienced. But for me, no problems. I ordered it 10/30, it was shipped 11/16, and I received it today. That was only 12 business days. Basic shipping without tracking. It works perfectly. I’m very satisfied with this transaction. So, I went ahead and ordered the s15r just now!
I can understand the pricing game. There is no question that "we" get better deals than people in general but since it is the "season" and everybody and their brother and mother are looking for gifts why shouldn't the vendors make it while they can? Like anything else there are times to buy and times not to buy and for us the closer Christmas gets it becomes a "BLF do not buy season"...until the product cannot arrive before Christmas. LOL.
I procastinated on a few of those deals and am kicking myself for it but at least I have a few of the S15R's which are almost perfect for many.
Mine arrived, and I am very impressed with it. Olight sure did a good job with the interface.
I sent one to someone who doesn’t do computers and doesn’t have any usb wall warts, would it be safe for him to use his cell phone charger to power the Olight charger, as long as the cell phone charger has the proper mini plug?
He said that his charger is labelled 5 volts and 400 ma, so that seems to be OK for the Olight charger.
If anyone is curious, my cell phone doesn’t have a usb plug. I started carrying a cell phone about 1996 and am on my second one, I couldn’t find a replacement battery for my first one.
The one I’ve used (first I got my hands on, I’ve got loads of different ones kicking around the house) is a Blackberry charger, though I’m at pains to say I’ve never owned a Blackberry product - I only bought this charger because it has a high output - it is rated at 5v/2A.
I have two S15's now, both from Gearbest, and although I'm in trouble with them on other orders, these came quickly enough. I promised a mod thread, but although today I had some time for the mod, I had not enough time for a full photographic tour of the modding process. So it will be description of how it went.
The bezel was quickly loose using a piece of rubber inner tire for grip. Then pushing a pencil into the battery tube I could push the (press-fit) pill out for some distance, but not fully: it gets stuck against something sticking out from the side switch. I left the pill at that position and managed to screw out the reflector by placing the piece of rubber tire over the reflector, and by pushing my needle-nose pliers on the edge of the reflector with the rubber in between slowly the reflector screwed out (I knew from my modded S20 that the reflector is screwed into the pill. I scratched the top edge of the reflector a bit but that goes under the silicon ring anyway. Then the led centering plastic was removed and the ledboard was cleared. Unsoldering the ledwires inside the cavity was not easy, I guess they used solder of higher than normal melting temperature. I was going to use an old 3500K 80CRI Luxeon Q that I still had (I tested the Luxeon Q two years ago) because I love the tint, and I reflowed it on a 16mm Noctigon because the stock board has XM-L sized pads. Before reflowing I sanded the Noctigon quite a bit thinner but not as thin as the stock board (for modding the second S15 I probably will not bother using a DTP-copper board because the current will never be over 1A in this light). I managed to solder the Noctigon into the cavity (blobs as far to the side as I could get them, to electrically clear the reflector) and placed the centering diagonally relative to the led to get a perfect centering. Now the reflector was screwed in again using the rubber piece. The centering ring rotated during this process, but with the reflector in place I could rotate it back by placing my tweezers in two opposite corners of the centering ring square hole and twist. Then the lens was placed back and the bezel screwed in. The rubber piece was used again to get the bezel real tight (and get the ledboard pressed firmly onto the pill, I suspect from how the blob of thermal paste looked under the stock board that in stock form the ledboard was not fully pushed down!)
The performance with the LuxeonQ compared to the stock XM-L2 went way down, even more than I hoped for (but I'm not surprised, with the smaller led and way warmer and higher CRI tint). But the light has now the lovely warm Luxeon tint, and with its smaller hotspot, judged by eye, it still throws noticably better than with the stock led (have not measured throw). Numbers after 30 seconds on high setting: stock light on 14500: 310lm, stock light on alkaline: 155lm, with LuxeonQ on 14500: 165lm, with LuxeonQ on alkaline: 105lm. The current on high setting with a 14500 was 880mA in both lights.
Some pictures. As you can see in the beamshot (left the modded light, right my other S15, still stock), the LuxeonQ has a bit more blue in the hotspot compared to the very cosy yellow corona, I noticed that too in my Lumintop Tool, that has the same led. I does not show in the beamshot, but the modded light does have more throw than the stock light. Looking with the camera into the reflector on moon setting shows that the led does not receive a completely constant current, some stripes are visible (interference with the camera, nothing you can see in real). Oh, I'm never good in keeping all dust out of my modded lights )
The S30 is still available at GB for just under $23. Seems to be a lottery on quality though; some people do great, others run into problems. I’d read about the S30 having a high incidence of switch problems that prompted Olight to issue the S30 II. Given the cost for the new II edition, I guess it’s still a pretty good gamble at that going price. Does GB have a workable customer service, or do you pretty much write off problems as a loss?
I sent an inquiry about an order for the S15 I ordered like December 3rd. They replied to me in like 10 minutes. The S15 I ordered for my brother was received pretty quick, of course i paid the little extra. I just placed an order for the S30 Baton so we’ll see how that goes